E Whole Tone, Fiddle Side

6 notes to the octave, mapped below onto this reader's GDAE fingerboard, with every E called out. Those markers are the useful part mid-bar: a chart moves under you, and the thing you need is where the root went — not where the pattern started.

Weightless and dreamlike — six equal whole steps with no leading tone, so nothing pulls anywhere. Blurry, floating, and faintly unsettling, like a dream sequence.

Heard in: Impressionist piano (Debussy's "Voiles"), Thelonious Monk's runs, dream-sequence film cues, and the augmented and 7#5 chords it fits in jazz.

This reader plays almost nothing the chart actually wrote: the numbers give the harmony and the line over the top of them is assembled, bar by bar, out of the notes on this page.

Play it slowly against the audio until the position stops being a position, then take it to a chart counted in E and let the numbers pick their own notes out of it.